i use hot water to clean up after useing corr. ammo, the old stinky G.I. bore cleaner was good. the important thing is to wash the corr. salts from the bore,oil will not do it. after getting rid of the salts you can oil the bore to prevent rust. eastbank.

The water does not need to be boiling FYI. I just use Windex before cleaning oil. The Chlorate salt is not oil soluble, rather water soluble. You just need something w/ water as the primary constituent.

Ballistol's use in corrosive primer (or black powder) cleaning is based on the fact that it is an emulsifiable oil. If you make up "Moose Milk" of 1:7 Ballistol in water (I have heard everything from 1:10 to 1:1. It is not a critical mix.) the water will dissolve the potassium chloride residue and the oil film will protect the steel until you can dry it and get down a coat of pure oil.

I dont know about cleaning the ammo itself but cleaning up afterwords. I own an AK47 and my brother owns both an AK and an AR chambered in 7.62x39 and we shoot corrosive ammo in all three. we use ballistol in all three. we run hot water through and clean, my brother uses remoil or WD40 and I just use CLP, we both finish up by coating with ballistol.

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Yes. Ballistol works great for cleaning a firearm after shooting corrosive ammo.
I mix about 50-50.
Been using it this way for 40+ years and I shoot a bunch of corrosive ammo. Never had any rust/corrosion issues ....ever.

Moose Milk (1 part emulsifiable oil such as Ballistol + 1-10 parts water) works great to dissolve the salts. Follow with emusifiable oil patches until all the water is removed. Murphy's Oil Soap also works in water solution, in fact, anything that is a good surfactant will improve the efficiency of water actually making contact with the soluble salts which is why Windex became the darling of some corrosive ammo shooters, low surface tension not the tiny bit of ammonia actually removing any copper. I use 1:10 Ballistol Moose Milk followed by 100% Ballistol when shooting corrosive surplus ammo and black powder. I use the Moose Milk as wiping solution between black powder shots. Whether it is any better for that use than spit or tap water I really can't say.

just go buy a cheap generic brand of windex w/ ammonia in it and clean your bore and wipe off bolt with it and it will counteract all the bad things corrosive ammo will do. Thats all i have ever used for my AR and Mosin when shooting corrosive ammo and never had a problem. Just run a oiled patch through the bore after your done cleaning

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